Cancer cases in kids rising

In April 2008, Jonathan Agin’s 27-month-old daughter, Alexis, was diagnosed with DIPG, a rare brain tumor. Agin, then a civil defense lawyer in Washington, D.C., was dislodged from his comfortable life and dragged into the surreal world of a young cancer victim’s parent: The sleepless nights in the din of a hospital, the grueling clinical trials. “I always had hope,” Agin said in a recent interview, though he knew most DIPG patients survive no more than two years after diagnosis.

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2021-12-03 12:37:42